Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Against a living democracy, the assaults of the Communists will be unavailing . . . Communists assume that the basic problem in society is class warfare. But the only real aristocracy we know is the aristocracy of individual initiative and achievement. Men who work in overalls today can become corporation executives tomorrow. The...
"These should be our articles of faith. If we adhere to them, we will be true to our character and ideals. Success is assured if we are true to ourselves. We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of...
All this careful attention to detail brings Gorgeous George upwards of $70,000 a year. He doesn't seem to mind playing his swishy role. But he steps out of character whenever anybody asks nosey questions about his wife and two kids: "Let's leave the better half...
John had gone ahead with the job, on the principle that "the portrait painter should allow no moral bias to affect his attitude to the sitter. The exploration of character should be left, with confidence, to the eye alone. Heaven knows what it may discover!" In Fuller, John's...
If individualism is to be saved, the attack on waste must be made from the opposite standpoint. The student must be made to want to use what Harvard offers, to know and dislike the waste before he graduates--the time when many men do finally understand and oppose it. The...